One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations? (Seth Lloyd)

One of the things that I've been doing recently in my scientific research is to ask this question: Is the universe actually capable of performing things like digital computations?

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